S1E6 Episode 6

Les Misérables Season 1 Episode 6 aired February 3, 2019 on BBC One as the series finale, bringing Andrew Davies's six-part adaptation to its conclusion across the June 1832 Rebellion and Valjean's final reckoning with Javert in the Paris sewers. The Telegraph noted that Dominic West 'steals the show in a stirring finale' - a recognition that West's accumulative performance across six episodes reaches its fullest expression in this closing hour. The 88-percent Rotten Tomatoes score from 40 critics and Metacritic of 79 reflect a consensus that Davies's straight-drama approach - stripping the musical's consolations and restoring the novel's moral gravity - was the correct choice, and the finale is where that choice pays off most fully. Collider's praise for the adaptation's 'newfound intimacy with these outcasts' is most applicable here: the final scene between Valjean and the characters who love him is handled with the restraint the production maintained throughout. Hugo's ending, honoured without the uplift the stage version provides, arrives at exactly the emotional register Davies promised in the premiere.